Like those statues which must be made larger than "nature" in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the "natural" size, certain truths must be "strained" in order that the public may form a just idea of them.


Part 4, XCIX - Meditations of a Parish Priest (1866)

Joseph Roux Quotes

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural...

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural...

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural...

Like those statues which must be made larger than nature in order that, viewed from below, or from a distance, they may appear to be of the natural...